Broadcast during a 1994 fundraising drive at KCET Los Angeles, "The Internet Show (Driver's Education for the Information Superhighway)"is a video introduction to the various aspects of The Internet. It frequently cuts back to the fundraising event (with by-the-phones operators behind the speakers). 

Brought by FTP Software of Andover, Massachusetts and COMPAQ.

Sequences in The Internet Show "Driver's Education for the Information Superhighway":

- Introduction Roll

- Host introduction in converible: Gina Smith and John Levine

- Hosted at Fondren Library at Rice University

- Overview of what Computer Networks are, and Basic Internet Aspects

- Examples: Using the Internet to find Paris Metro stops, E-mail to Tokyo

- Example: Displaying Artworks and Comics, Job Listings, For Sale Sites

- Definition: Internaut, Cyberspace

- History of the Internet Overview (ARPA, Shift to NSF, Internet Growth)

- Packet Switching Overview (Utilizing Barbershop Quartet)

- Electronic Mail Introduction and Overview

- Format of Electronic-Mail Addresses (Domain names and @ construction)

- Demonstration of Electronic Mail client use

- Variety of client types (text versus graphics/color)

- Continued Electronic Mail client use (conversation and destination)

- STORY: Use of Internet at Junior-Senior High School in Harts, West Virginia

- Interviews with Teachers, Students, School of Medicine Employees

- FUNDRAISING BREAK 

- Usenet and Newsgroups Introduction

- Early demonstration of responding to a discussion thread without research

- Warning about Spam and Lack of Censorship on the Internet

- STORY: Russian censorship and media control end-run by RELCOM during Coup

- Interview with Vadim Antonov, co-founder of RELCOM

- Interview with Prof. Larry Press, Ph.D

- Mailing Lists Introduction

- Demonstration: Using mailserv@rtfm.mit.edu to get lists of mailing lists

- Chat and Talk Introduction

- Interview with Jennifer Sutton, Deaf User at Galludet University

- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) demonstration

- Talk demonstration

- Definition: Netiquette

- Definition: Flaming

- Definition: Newbies

- Recommendation to lurk first, and utilize FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

- Utilizing Smileys to show emotion in messages

- FUNDRAISING BREAK

- Surfing the Net: Finding and Getting Stuff

- Gopher/Gopherspace Introduction

- Definition: Gopherspace

- Demonstration of using the gopher server at Oxford University

- STORY: University of Wales in Aberystwyth 

- Interview with Jeremy Perkins, Ph.D, lister of Real Ales in Gopherspace

- Using search engines in Gopherspace (Veronica, Jughead, Archie Servers)

- Definition: Download

- Demonstration of using Archie to search gopherspace

- Demonstration of FTP program and downloading

- Definition: Hypertext

- The World Wide Web and Web Documents

- Demonstrating WWW using Mosaic Client

- Definition and Demonstration: Telnet to the Library of Congress

- Introduction: Dirty Little Secrets

- Internet Ease of Use is limited - UNIX aspects are difficult

- Inconsistency is rampant on the Internet and aspects change frequently

- Internet servers are strained and occasionally unavailable

- Anonymous users engage in illegal acts but that's a very small number

- STORY: Using the Net

- Interview with Greg Bothun, Ph.D, University of Oregon

- Use of Internet by Dr. Bothun to communicate with other campuses

- STORY: Business on the Internet

- Flowers in Cyberspace

- Interview with Larry Grant of Grant's Flowers and Greenhouses, Ann Arbor

- Interview with Jon Zeeff of Branch Information Services

- Overview of SLIP/PPP accounts and using Mosaic

- Getting on the Net

- Use of local universities or local internet service providers

- InterNIC Hotline for Internet Connectivity

- Use books to read about the Internet

- The Future of the Net

- STORY: Telluride Institute and InfoZone

- Interview with Richard Lowenberg of Telluride Institute/InfoZone

- Interview with Peter Lert, Pilot and Writer

- Use of Internet at Telluride Library

- Interview with Donna Clark, Librarian

- Closing Message: The Internet is Always Changing, Get On It

Producers: Phillip Byrd, John Meek, Bill Watts

Associate Producers: Stephen Bondy, Janet Shapiro

Writer: Bill Watts

Directors: Phillip Byrd, John Meek

Engineer in Charge: Bink Williams

Technical Director: Stephen Bondy

Gaffer: Mark Wells

Grips: George Coronis, Eddie Stevens, Chris Hogan, Scotty Smith

Production Assistants: Christine Gardner, Mary K. Hudson, Noel Novak

Cameras: Robin Barrow, Bob Berg, Roger Brooks, Cliff Crowley, Taylor Klotz, Jaroslav Vodehnal, Gary Watson

Audio: Bill Williams, Neil O'Sullivan, Mary Kay Berg, Leonard Burns, Gus Gomez, Jay Sanchez, Rich Stogsdill

Stage Manager: Debbie Partin

Videotape: Helge Blucher

Teleprompter: Bethel Bird

Makeup: Pat Gundlach

Wardrobe: Rona LaMont

Set Design: Bill Griffin

Offline Editors: John Meek, John Shapiro, Stephen Bondy

Animation and Online Editor: Stephen Bondy

Graphic Designer: Phil Chrzanowski

Hosts: John Levine, Gina Smith

Barbershop Quartet: "Acoustix": Jason January, Rick Middaugh, Jeff Oxley, Todd Wilson

Airport Gate Agent: Rene Hoover

Narrator: Bob Strane

Internet Consultants: John Levine, Kevin Brook Long

Internet Tinkerers: Don Baker, Gwyn Guidy, Tom Lytle

Additional Footage: Archive Films, Preview Media, Worldwide Television News, Library of Congress, KCET/Los Angeles, NCSA/University of Illinois

Production Facilities: John Crowe Productions, Cinema Trucks of Texas

Convertible: Sugarland Classic Automotive

Travel Arrangements: Continental Airlines

Special Thanks To: Rice University, Dr. G. Anthony Garry, Beth Shapiro, Marti Branch, Patty Delheim, Larry Heileman, Jim Scalem

The Internet Show is a Co-Production of Brandenburg Productions, Inc. and The Production Companies, Inc. (1994)

Bio of Gina Smith:

Gina Smith is an American entrepreneur, author, and journalist who co-wrote Steve Wozniak's 2006 autobiography iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It. She is also a co-founder and editorial director of aNewDomain, a technology news site. In 2001, Smith was named one of the 100 most influential people in technology by Upside Magazine. From 1990 to 2000, Smith wrote the "Inside Silicon Valley" technology column in the San Francisco Sunday Chronicle. During that time, she was a investigative news reporter for PC Week, senior editor at PC/Computing magazine, and later, as of 1994, she was the editor-in-chief of IDG's Electronic Entertainment magazine. From 1993 to 1997, she hosted On Computers with Gina Smith and Leo Laporte and from 1997 to 2000 she hosted ABC Radio's "Connected with Gina Smith," a radio call-in show that ran in syndication.

In 1995, she co-hosted, with John Levine, an educational PBS special The Internet Show: Drivers' Education for the Internet Superhighway. Also in 1995 ABC News hired Smith as a technology correspondent, where she covered technology news for ABC News' Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Good Morning America. Smith hosted the ESPN weekly series, "Nothing But Net," with Pat O'Brien in 1995 and 1996. She also hosted a daily tech news show on the Discovery Channel in 1996 and 1997 called Cyberlife. Cyberlife was nominated for a CableACE award in the Business/Consumer Programming Special or Series category in 1997. In 1999 Smith joined CNET as anchor of the News.Com daily news show on CNBC. In 2010, Smith returned to journalism as editor in chief of the online relaunch of Byte magazine as Byte.com. Since 2011, she has been CEO of aNewDomain Media, which runs several news websites.

Bio of John Levine:

John R. Levine writes, speaks, and consults on the Internet, electronic mail, cybersecurity, and related topics. He speaks to many trade, policy, and general groups. He's testified at the Federal Trade Commission Spam Forum on the mechanics of spam, to the Senate Commerce Committee on spyware, and is part of the Industry Canada Task Force on Spam. He's spoken at the Internet Law and Policy Forum and at many conferences. He is frequently interviewed in the print and electronic media and has extensive working relationships with reporters.

He consults and provides advice and expertise on e-mail and Internet systems, security, and software. See his series of white papers on electronic mail. He co-founded the Domain Assurance Council, a non-profit industry consortium that establishes standards for e-mail certification and security. He's served as an expert witness on a variety of computer topics including e-mail spam, compiler software, and graphic image file formats.

He's written many books on the Internet and other computer topics. His books range from the best-selling Internet for Dummies, with over seven million copies of eleven editions in print in dozens of languages, Fighting Spam for Dummies, and Windows Vista: the Complete Reference to books on computer language tools and graphics programming.